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Profile of Chaman Lal Gadoo PROFILE OF CHAMAN LAL GADOO (AUTHOR AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST) VIDYA GAURI GADOO RESEARCH CENTRE S-71, Sunder Block, Shakarpur, Delhi—110092, Mob.9891297912, Email: [email protected] , Blog: www.clgadoo.blogspot.com Chaman Lal Gadoo with Swami Ramdev 1 PROFILE IN PICTURES C.L.Gadoo, President Smt. PRATIBHA PATIL & President Sh. K.R.NARAYANAN C.L.Gadoo with PM Sh.A.B.Vajpayee, & Sh. Madan Lal Khurana, BJP Delhi chief C.L.Gadoo with Dy. PM Sh.L.K.Advani & with Sh.L.K.Advani and Sh.K.N Sahani, 2 SWAMI SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR RELEASING BOOK KASHMIR HINDU SHRINES SWAMI RAMDEV RELEASING THE BOOK—KASHMIR HINDU SHRINES Author with Swami Girijeshananda(Jammu)Author with Acharya Balkrishna(Haridwar) 3 CL.Gadoo with PM Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru & with PM Sh.P.V.Narasimha Rao C.L. Gadoo, Sh. A.B.Vajpayee, Sh.S.L.Shakdhar, Dr.Hari Ohm, Dr. M. K.Teng c.l.gadoo,Sh.M.L.Khurana,Sh.B.S.Shekhawat,Sh.S.L.Shakdhar,Sh.KeshoBhaiPatel 4 BRIEF PROFILE Chaman Lal Gadoo, born in the year 1937 at Srinagar, Kashmir has been ardent Hindu nationalist from an early age. His father Pandit Janki Nath Gadoo, a teacher by profession, was a highly learned Kashmiri Pandit and his Mother Smt. Ragniya Gadoo, was a noble house wife, with a spiritual and religious discipline, and social bonding. She left for heavenly abode, at an early age. His Wife Smt. Vidya Gauri Gadoo was organizing & training commissioner, Bharat Scouts and Guides, Delhi State. Chaman Lal completed his early education at Srinagar and received technical education in Electronics Engineering and Industrial management at Delhi. While he chose engineering as his profession, he has always been a self-less social activist and a writer with keen observation and clear expression. He worked with Tata’s NELCO for 17 years then that started his own manufacturing and sales enterprise. He has traveled throughout the length and breadth of the country. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: Gadoo took active participation in student and youth movements. He took active part in organizing the student rally, first of its kind at Srinagar on June 23, 1953 on the Martyrdom of Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukharjee; ever since he never looked back and the zeal to the voice of the sufferers still keeps him working on the cause even as an octogenarian. He became National Council Member, of National Youth Organization (NYO) at New Delhi, and associate Editor of its monthly youth magazine ‘Lion Roar’ in the year 1963. Chaman Lal Gadoo took keen interest in Trade Union activities, represented Tata Group Unions, Mercantile Unions and Federation of Radio & Electrical Employees Unions of Delhi, for more than a decade as its General Secretary and launched ‘Workers News’ in 1971. He organized workers of Electronics Industry in the capital and represented Radio Industrial workers in its first wage-board appointed by the Delhi Government in 1973. Gadoo served the cause of unapproved colonies of Delhi, as Vice President of East-South Welfare Association (Regd.) in 1976 and again in 1982 as General Secretary of Laxmi Nagar-Shakarpur Welfare Association. This association played a key role in getting Laxmi Nagar and Shakarpur colonies regularized. Organized a massive Havan by Kashmiri Pandits living in Delhi at Shakarpur during 1987 and the proceeds thus collected were used in constructing Swami Amarnath temple at Mayur Vihar Phase II at a later date. Gadoo keeps both spiritual awakening and social activity side by side to take up a just struggle for a just cause, especially for the displaced Kashmiri Hindu community. He has played key role in organizing Havans at different places in the clusters of Kashmiri Hindu displaced community clusters. The process of performing Havans has become a regular social function in the community clusters now. Gadoo has spent more than last thirty years in community welfare activities, ever since there was first attempt by communal forces in South Kashmir to annihilate Kashmiri Hindus, way back in 1986. Politically, he is an ardent supporter of Hindu nationalism and deeply involved in the Hindu resistance movement, against Muslim separatism in Kashmir. He has been in the midst of the relief and rehabilitation of the Hindus of Kashmir, displaced in the aftermath of the militant violence in Kashmir during 1990. He has worked overall for the welfare of the community. 5 Gadoo worked diligently for the Kashmiri Hindus’ cause, as the President of Kashmiri Samiti, Delhi (nodal agency for displaced Kashmiri Hindus) and President, Bharatiya Janata Party, J&K cell, Delhi Pradesh, for more than two decades. He has worked with BJP stalwarts like Shri Kedar Nath Sahani, Shri Madan Lal Khurana, Prof. Om Prakash Kohli, Shri Mange Ram Garg, and Dr. Harsh Vardhan, who have been BJP Presidents, Delhi Pradesh, from time to time. Gadoo moved a first time resolution at a BJP meet presided by Sh. K.N.Sahani in presence of Sh. L.K.Advani, National President BJP, Smt. Sushma Suraj, National General Secretary BJP and many other BJP leaders for abrogation of Art.370 on 28th Nov. 1995, which was unanimously approved by the full house. Earlier, as President of Kashmiri Samiti, during a press conference, which was widely covered by print media, on June 10, 1993 urged Government to scrap Art. 370 for peace and prosperity of the troubled valley. Apart from working with BJP stalwarts, Gadoo worked in tandem with other stalwarts like Prof. Balraj Madhok, founder Akil Bharatiya Jan Sangh, Shri. Ashok Singhal, President, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) who appreciated the booklet ‘Sri Ram Temple Movement’ and distributed amongst his team of workers and to leading group of lawyers. This booklet was produced as a document in Supreme Court of India. Also Shri B.L.Sharma (Prem), founder Akhand Hindustan Morcha, and was associated with English section of its mouth-piece, Aabay Bharat, for a long time. Chaman Lal Gadoo has been President of J&K Sangam, and Kashur Sumchar, also Vice-President of All India Kashmiri Samaj, New Delhi and is associated with many other organizations like The Kashmir Education, Culture and Science Society and others. He was Vice-President of Nirmal Vedant Prachar Mandal/ Nirmal Sadhana Ashram, Delhi. He is associated with Arya Samaj, Shakarpur Delhi. He is currently Co- Chairman, Joint Human Rights committee, New Delhi and Chairman, Vidya Gauri Gadoo Research Centre, New Delhi. Gadoo has served the community in exile and has been one of the front runners who worked tirelessly for the displaced brethren for their registration, rehabilitation, relief, education, jobs, employment of teachers, Teh Bazari (Shops), DDA plots(for camp dwellers), reservation of migrant students in Kendriya Vidyalayas, technical and other institutions/ Universities. He is now working for Healthcare of elderly and on many more burning issues like unemployment and on return to homeland. He has always been sensitive to the needy. Gadoo as the President of Kashmiri Samiti Delhi was part of historic decision taken by Kashmiri Pandits at Jammu in 1991, for separate Home Land as enshrined as ‘Margdharshan 91’ and is a signatory to this resolution. This became necessity because of the fact, Hindus of Kashmir are a displaced people, torn from their social and cultural moorings, scattered in a state of Diaspora, which threatens them with the loss of their identity. Nearly half the people of the community were living in refugee camps. A historic meeting was organized by Jammu and Kashmir Sangam, on July 23, 1995, at Maulankar Hall, New Delhi, to felicitate chief ministers of BJP ruled states. On the request of Sh. C.L.Gadoo, President J&K Sangam, all the chief ministers including education minister of Maharashtra, assured the huge gathering of Kashmiri Hindus present on the occasion, that reservation of seats for migrant students will be available in their respective states, at University level and in technical institutions including business schools. This was indeed a turning point for the migrant students. 6 Chaman Lal Gadoo has organized many protest rallies, demonstrations, seminars and press conferences to highlight genocide, ethnic cleansing and plight of Kashmiri Hindus in exile. National media and State media gave full coverage of all such events, thereby awareness of the Human Rights Violations faced by Kashmiri Hindus spread far and wide. He has widely traveled and represented Kashmiri Hindus at many national and international foras. A long, purposeful and fruitful meeting was held with US Congressman Stephen j. Solarz, Chairman, House of Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs on 31st.May 1990 at New Delhi. The delegation was lead by Gadoo and comprised of many other dignitaries. The Kashmiri Pandit London Summit, hosted by the Indo European Kashmir Forum, was held in Hendon, London, from 18th –21st June 1997. The purpose of the Summit was to evolve a common platform for the unified voice of all Kashmiri Pandits .He was elected as Director of Press and Publicity & Director of Inter-Party Affairs (National Parties) at the meet. During November 1998, he participated in a seminar at the House of Commons, London. He also attended a meeting with lawmakers of Indian Caucus (USA) at Washington DC on Kashmir and on plight of Kashmiri Pandits in exile during 1998. Had a long meeting with Congressman Sherrod Brown and others, informed them about the developments in Kashmir and the plight of Kashmiri Hindus. The Human Rights Violations, Ethnic cleansing and Genocide of Kashmiri Hindus, the original inhabitants, was discussed in detail. Since the beginning of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus due to the onslaught of systematic ethnic cleansing of the microscopic minorities, Gadoo has been raising issues, faced to face with the National Human Rights Commission for last twenty years.
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